iFlashback! August 20th, 2003

It’s time for iFlashback! A weekly feature in which we take a look at some comics that were on sale nine years ago. Why nine years and not ten? Well because our Mondays in 2012 sync up with the Wednesdays of 2003.

So jog down memory lane with me. The date is August 20th, 2003. The number one film at the box office is Freddy VS Jason and these are some of the comics at your local comic book shop.

Wonder Woman #195

By Greg Rucka, Drew Johnson, Ray Snyder

Exiles #31

By Judd Winick, Jim Calafiore, Mark McKenna

Cinnamon: El Ciclo #1

By Jen Van Meter, Francisco Paranzini, Robert Campanella

Runaways #5

By Brian K. Vaughan, Adrian Alphona, David Newbold

Big Bang Comics Summer Special #1

By Gary Carlson

Human Target #1

By Peter Milligan, Javier Pulido

SMAX #1

By Alan Moore, Zander Cannon

Outsiders #3

By Judd Winick, Tom Raney, Scott Hanna

Daredevil #50

By Brian Michael Bendis, Alex Maleev

That was the week that was in comics. Some heavy hitters came out that week. So, did you read any of these comics? If so tell us what you thought of them.

@Ken-I don’t know if you mean the Cinnamon series or Cinnamon as a character, but the character has been appearing on some of the back-ups of All Star Western (which, if you haven’t been reading, is a series I’ve been really enjoying). I don’t know anything about the character beyond these few stories, but if I recall correctly she became a gunfighter after her father was murdered when she was little and she was sent to an orphanage. She’s teamed up with Nighthawk in the current back-ups.

Two things that struck me reading this: That Exiles run that Winick put together was consistently very good and underrated and I sometimes forget how special Runaways was with Vaughan and Alphona on it.

My big regret from the Boston Con this year was that I never go the chance to have that Daredevil book signed by Maleev. What a great cover!

This is exactly what I thought when I saw it on the list. Outsiders was amazing. And now what we have is Winick’s Catwoman and Batwing? I still don’t understand why he wasn’t on Red Hood and JLI when the relaunch started. Red Hood could have been like Outsiders will more killing.

Read Daredevil, Smax, and Runaways. All are highly recommended – for those interested Smax was a mini spinoff from Alan Moore’s Top Ten – perhaps the most interesting (for my money) of the ABC line. But of these I would say Bendis/Maleev on Daredevil borders on legendary.

I really liked Exiles and love that Image JSA mock up whatever that was, never seen it but is funny and looks just like All-Star Comics old logo, they do battle nazis too often but they’re fun to watch get beat up. Alan Moore has done a lot of stuff I never seen and I want that complete DD run in Omnibus format but pretty sure its pricey now….can’t say I don’t like Mark Waid’s run either. Peter Milligan is one of those writers I’ve come to love for cult type titles and didn’t know who he was nine years ago, I remember X-Statix and just ordered the omnibus but when it was out didn’t know he was on it.